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 2008 Tentative Scheduled of Entertainers

MTB

MTB is a group of student musicians who attend Owego Free Academy. This group was formed in August 2007 and has performed at several venues in the Owego area during the past school year from the United Way Campaign Kick-off at Tioga Downs, to the Grand Central Restaurant, Tioga Trails Cafe, Owego Treadway Inn and the Owego Moose Club. MTB has developed a large group of fans performing a sampling of many well-known pop artists such as - Aretha Franklin, Kelly Clarkson, Van Morrison, The Beatles, The Blues Brothers, Carlos Santana, Billy Joel, The Temptations, Journey, and Alicia Keyes.

MTB uses the name and concept from the television program, “Making the Band”. The OFA version of “Making the Band” is a training experience to teach high school students to perform popular music. OFA is the first school in the Southern Tier to sponsor a group like this and MTB has quickly become one of the premier ensembles at the school. Many student musicians have the talent and desire to continue performing after high school and MTB now provides them with an experience to learn how to be a professional musician. The band has five singers who are featured on lead vocals and who also provide background vocals. The horn section consists of trumpet, trombone, alto sax, and tenor sax; and the rhythm section includes piano, guitar, bass, drums, and percussion.

Royal Blues - Owego

The Riolo Brothers

Outta Time Blues - Mac McGhee

The Blue J's

The Blue J’s are a locally based blues quartet from Binghamton’s First Ward that mines that rich Memphis mother lode where Chicago-style blues cohabits with New Orleans inspired rhythms. They play the Blues, Motown and Memphis inspired R&B and whatever other musical genre that strikes their fancy with class, feeling and dynamics. From the first time they met and played together there has been a mutual goal to explore and to use each members creative talents in rearranging existing pieces and in creating new ones. They really do have “a good thing going”. The Blue J’s have performed at the The Night Eagle Café, The Cyber Café, Mosquito Lounge and Thirsty’s, all in Binghamton, NY. They have also performed at Magic City Music Hall, NYSEG stadium for the Binghamton Mets Game on “Blues Brothers Night” and “Blues on the Bridge” in Binghamton.

Miss E.C. Scott

Miss E. C. Scott from the San Francisco Bay area of California, has developed her own style with a refreshingly distinct and modern approach. At the age of 16, E. C. began singing in nightclubs, quickly developing a following, and was being talked up as one of the area’s rising stars. After a break to raise her family, E. C. resumed her career singing jazz, but drifted back to R & B. E. C.’s growing reputation allowed her to share the stage with Lou Rawls, Ray Charles, Patti LaBelle, Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, John Lee Hooker, and the Ohio Players. In 1994 E. C. signed a multi-record deal with Blind Pig Records. Her first release in 1995, “Come Get Your Love” captured the attention and praise of the blues community. Her next CD, “Hard Act To Follow”, was released in 1998 followed by “Masterpiece” in 1999. In 1999 E. C. received the W. C. Handy nomination for Soul/Blues Female Artist of the Year. Her latest release on Black Bud Records is entitled, “The Other Side of Me”. On her appearance at the San Francisco Blues Festival, the San Francisco Examiner reported, “Oakland’s fantastically powerful and soulful vocalist E. C. Scott just flat-out scorched through the fog.” Living Blues describes E. C. as “A gutsy vocalist, endowed with a voice that’s supple, sinewy, and tough – potent enough to wrestle a road-house rocker into submission and tender enough to caress the hurt out of a lovelorn ballad” and “E. C. Scott must be ranked among the best of the promising young blues-based female singers of recent years”.

Roomful of Blues

Roomful of Blues, according to Down Beat magazine, "is in a class by themselves." With their masterful combination of jumping, horn-heavy, hard-edged blues and R&B, it's no wonder why the great Count Basie called them "the hottest blues band I've ever heard." Since 1967, the group's deeply rooted blend of swing, rock 'n' roll, jump, blues and soul has earned it five Grammy Award nominations and a slew of other accolades, including seven Blues Music Awards (with the nod for Blues Band Of The Year in 2005). The band, with a membership that has continued to change and evolve over the years, has always boasted great musicianship featuring a stellar horn section.

With a non-stop performance schedule for almost 40 years, Roomful of Blues has earned critical, popular and radio success and a legion of fans around the globe. Twice, the prestigious Down Beat International Critics Poll selected Roomful of Blues as Best Blues Band. Roomful of Blues joined the Alligator Records family with the Grammy-nominated That's Right! in 2003, followed by Standing Room Only in 2005. Both CDs received massive amounts of critical and popular praise and earned them hordes of new fans around the world. Down Beat described Standing Room Only as "bold, brassy and highly danceable jump blues with contemporary energy and sophistication...swings with a vengeance." Now they're back with Raisin' A Ruckus, a foot-stomping CD highlighting the intense vocal and instrumental power of the world's smallest big band.

In 2008, Roomful of Blues will once again hit the road hard, bringing their horn and guitar fueled music to fans around the world. With their non-stop touring schedule, long-time fans and new converts alike can see for themselves why The Chicago Sun-Times said, "This is a band on top of its game, sliding easily from big-band jazz-blues to guitar-drenched urban blues. Let the party begin." With Raisin' A Ruckus, the party has clearly already started.

Roosevelt Dean

Rosie is living his dream in his second career as a Blues man fronting his own band. After working for 30 years at Syracuse China, he retired and began to do seriously what he'd started to do some 10 years earlier, perform and record the blues in his adopted city of Syracuse. Roosevelt attributes his loves of the blues to growing up in the South and listening to live blues from a neighboring club, visited by the likes of Muddy Waters, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and B. B. King.

All proceeds from Hickory Smoked Music Festival benefit The Tioga County Council on the Arts.
 

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